The Most Ballin’ Blog Ever

1. In this 45 page essay, Susan Bordo really drives her points home. This is very effective in a way to help people understand. She comes at the reader from a few different angles on each point to really help you grasp what she is trying to say. Also by using graphics helps visualize what she is talking about. By using very good, descriptive words, she controls the pace of the essay. It makes us slow down and think about what she is saying. She also has 27 sources listed in her bibliography. She really did her research before she wrote this essay which gave her many viewpoint and a whole lot to talk about. She also breaks the essay into sections. This helps her organize her ideas and gives her reason to just keep talking about stuff.

2. As I mentioned before, her subsections allow her to organize her thoughts, say what she needs to say without rushing, and also control the pace of the reading. They also help her develop her essay and tell it in order. First she talks about the history of using the naked or half-naked male body in advertising. Then she gives us an example of one designer and his story. Then she differentiates between the different ways to use the male body, whether it be the “stare down” effect or the self-conscience one.

3.  In her essay, Bordo discusses the “gaze” of another and how people can be defined by it.  It gives a person a sense of self-worth when they are approved by someone else.  And also, “getting caught in moments of fantasy or vanity may be especially shameful.”  Your position changes as soon as you get the “Look” of another.  “It isn’t until those other eyes are upon you that you truly feel not just the ‘wrongness’ of what you are doing, but … the very fact that you are doing it.”